About “Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

Also known as The Dwarven Song of Old Wealth, this is the version of the song found in Chapter One of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. The full version is here.

Form and Structure: quatrains with rhyme scheme AABA. Interestingly, this rhyme scheme is the Ruba'i form, which was adapted by Robert Frost in his famous poem ‘Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening’ (1923).

Further Reading:

Beowulf

‘Völuspá’, the first and best known poem of the Old Norse Poetic Edda. The list of names of dwarfs are directly referenced in The Hobbit.